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Favorite Childhood books!
MDefarge:
A discussion began in mrsbrandt's thread (Help us name our new baby...)of the Trixie Belden books, which a number of us remember from our childhood. This makes me curious, what other books did you just LOVE when you were a kid (or still love to read?
Here are some of mine
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Trixie Belden
The Babysitters Club
Little House on the Prairie
Half Magic - and the rest of those books
The Witches - anything by Roald Dahl
I also liked to read biographies when I was a kid - simple ones but for people like
Helen Keller, Pocahontas, Clara Barton, Ben Franklin etc.
There are a ton more but my brain is a little slow today (and my books are mostly packed away at my parents)
So what books did you love when you were a kid?
hollasa:
If you liked the Half Magic books (which I just adored as well), did you also read the E. Nesbitt books? Phoenix and the Carpet, Five Children and It, etc?
Some years ago, I decided to buy the books that I'd like, so that I could read them again - and I decided I didn't care if people thought they were too childish to buy. I have Edward Eager's books, the Edith Nesbitt ones, and then I bought some old ones that I remembered (Dogsbody), and discovered Diana Wynne Jones' other wonderful books.
Somehow, I need to find the books the Tree that Sat Down, Stream that Stood Still, Mountain of Magic - I recently managed to find which books they were from my old memories of reading them, but they're now out of print and pretty expensive to buy.
Looking forward to sharing them with my children - recently read my 5 year old a short version of The Little Princess, which she loved, so must see about some others!
Cupcake Fiend:
Oh so many! I have always been an avid reader.
The Trixie Belden series
Black Beauty, the Black Stallion series, and any other book about horses or unicorns I could get my hands on.
The Chronicles of Narnia, which I still reread yearly.
The Wrinkle in Time series by Madeline L'Engle
Bunnicula & the sequels
I discovered horror books fairly early on. While I was still in grade school I was already reading Stephen King and VC Andrews, and whatever was already published of the Clan of the Cave Bear books by Jean Auel. I don't really go for those types of books anymore though.
I also used to pore over a book called The Encyclopedia of Horses that had all kinds of information and photos in it. I had a whole list of the different breeds I was going to have on the ranch I planned to open and names for them. (Most names taken from other books I had read. I know I had Lady and Strawberry from Trixie Belden on the list)
Bijou:
--- Quote from: irishone on February 08, 2007, 12:44:31 PM ---A discussion began in mrsbrandt's thread (Help us name our new baby...)of the Trixie Belden books, which a number of us remember from our childhood. This makes me curious, what other books did you just LOVE when you were a kid (or still love to read?
Here are some of mine
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Trixie Belden
The Babysitters Club
Little House on the Prairie
Half Magic - and the rest of those books
The Witches - anything by Roald Dahl
I also liked to read biographies when I was a kid - simple ones but for people like
Helen Keller, Pocahontas, Clara Barton, Ben Franklin etc.
There are a ton more but my brain is a little slow today (and my books are mostly packed away at my parents)
So what books did you love when you were a kid?
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Nancy Drew
Comic books
aline:
So many choices! I've always loved to read.
all of Marguerite Henry's books on horses
all of Madeline L'Engle's books
Narnia Chronicles
Nancy Drew
Trixie Belden
The Boxcar Children
Island of the Blue Dolphins
anything by Ray Bradbury
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